Uh oh, I did it again. Bought some more Eames chairs.  

Sorry to be of no help with edition but, to my eye, the patina on that pair is perfect. I wouldn't touch it. Good price, too. You are a lucky person despite the eye rolls. One becomes immune to those eventually, IME, though my family's opinion may differ.

Yes, they are well used chairs, but also reasonable well cared for ones. I won't do much apart from clean them up.

I am lucky to have room for a lot of furniture. There are many chairs in addition to the Eames ones. I move them around a bit like people rotate paintings (I do that, too).

My Airbnb guests are also lucky, though not all of them realize it. One who did was an architect from the north east US down here visiting his daughter who came for a holiday and never went home. When he walked into the Airbnb pad, his jaw nearly hit the floor when he saw a dozen or so Eames chairs and tables including our Eames Lounge in rosewood in absolutely perfect condition. I put that chair in the pad for him and filled the bookcase behind it with architecture and mid century furniture books. 

I think the bloke who sold me those chairs might have been lucky, too. I heard this morning on the radio that late last night there was a fire in the storage complex where those chairs were. What are the odds of that. The seller called me this morning and we mused that we were probably captured on CCTV and that the police would have seen us in deep discussion. He's not sure whether his storage unit was affected.  

Well, that fire is still going, though under control. Hard fire to put out apparently - lots of corridors with. There were 290 storage units in that building and I can't imagine there is much left of the contents of any of them. The bloke I bought those chairs off was going through a divorce and had moved a lot of his possessions into storage.

In another twist, I was telling someone at work about the saga this morning and he told me that his daughter is the manager of that business. What are the chances of that in a city of nearly five million people. It's not public knowledge, but apparently at 3am on Thursday morning somebody was in their storage unit doing some welding and caused the fire. Doing anything like welding is of course not permitted, which is why he was doing it at 3am.

.... and another coincidence, in this city of five million, I’m reading this, and know about the fire you are talking about, as I live just around the corner. Tah duh!!! Nice chairs, great price, glad they didn’t go up in smoke. 

Cheers,

Adam. 

You should have bought those chairs, Adam. He told me he had another chair in there and some other stuff. I felt pretty bad for him, though maybe his stuff wasn't affected. I think his storage unit was in the back of that building around the corner.